Quality Inn & Suites Jamestown

We will post trip information here as soon as it starts. For 2010, we will continue planning the project and look for Sponsors that are willing to invest and support the Project. All indications in that regard is ...

... is a fairly basic RV Park. According to the camp host, this isn't a place 'campers' come to as there isn't anything to do here - the campground that is, not Bismarck. They are also fuller than anticipated due to an extended harvest season. It seems the combine crews stay here while harvesting the local fields and because of an unseasonably wet summer they are behind schedule.

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... We also had lunch at the "chuckwagon buffet" which was all you could eat of everything - so I told the kids this was dinner and to eat till they burst and take extra cookies out with them ! After we left Medora late in the day it was such a beautiful sky and had just begun to cool off that we decided to drive until sunset which is about 8pm now. How the daylight hours are changing now with fall approaching ! By 7:45 we pulled into a small town called ...

... we head to the Lakes in the Brainerd, MN. area. Thanks for all your postings. I will add more about our short visit to Rushmore and our wonderful time at my Aunt Silvia's farm. The girls, and especially I, LOVED it there. I just wanted to let you all know we are safe and sound, despite being without any cell phone service until midnight, when it was too late to return any calls. Hugs to everyone. Time for some home made blueberry pancakes and zucchini bread.

Today we've traveled from St. Cloud, Minnesota to Jamestown, North Dakota.  Beautiful country all the way, and it's very interesting to watch the landscape change as we drive.  This morning we spotted a sign for the "Lake Woebegon Trail", so we turned off I-94 to see what that was about. Turns out it's a great bicycle trail that goes through miles of central Minnesota.  We explored some of it, then went back to the little town of ...

... 25 cents here, 60 cents, 80 cents, 1.60 After a few of these randomly priced tolls I thought to myself "self...I would rather pay $1.00 instead of .80 why doesn't the state make it easier on everyone? It's a win win...I get to stop digging for change and just hand the dude a dollar bill and they get 20 cents out of the deal? As you can imagine I had some time to think, so this was one of many momemts. My other random ...

... sizes, shapes, and general cleanliness. Many restaurants have English or tourist menus. Most of them are fine with a few small mistakes. When we read this daily special section, we had record it somehow. It takes a minute to figure it out. Also, check out this Simpson's tee-shirt. You will understand if you saw the movie.

... Minnesota at Mystic Lakes Casino Resort - a much better experience, I'm sure! We were surprised to find, when we turned on the news, that really, really bad weather is following us! Colorado and Wyoming have had tornadoes and Rapid City had thunderstorms. Weather forecasts for tomorrow aren't that great either ... I think we ...

As many of you know, we have been planning this trip for quite some time. We read a number of guidebooks and watched some travel videos. We definitely worked at it but believe that the time and effort were well worth it. It may be hard to believe, but we only had one backpack each for our 2 week trip. We carried our bags on ...

... to a cheesburger and milkshake at the Jamestown Tastee Freeze on route 20 and then a little further down 94 I was able to get washed up with a hose. Now I wa feeling real good. My van was running again, I had a warm meal and I was clean and had new territory to explore the next day. I drove a little further and then stopped for the night on the frontage road near Steele.